Gates foundation gives Aids scientists $287m
 

Now THAT is a charitable donation!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/st...824607,00.html



Not if only he could do something about the viruses going after my computer.

I knew something like this was coming soon

Gates is the fuckin man:thumbsup and buffet made proably the best decision he has ever made in his life when he gave to the foundation

hopefuly I will be able to go raw in some cameltoe soon :thumbsup

Thats nice of him.
Im sure his accountants are happy with the tax write-off too :winkwink:

wow thats cool

He's going to do a load of good for the world, he has more money to help the worlds poor then any country. Many people had different views about him and the way he conducted his business, now he'll use his money and power for good, he'll go down in history as a hero.

Smart man!

Bill Gates is the mofo man

He is surely blessed for doing something like that... he is generous for sure!

That's awesome. It'll be great to follow the organization over the next few decades to see how much good stuff they do.....it's really amazing:hitit

Gates, for as much as I hated him for what he did to the business world (major geek tendencies here) is actually a bigger humanitarian than most that I've seen.

This money will be split up between 16 different groups; being that they are to pool their resources. Sadly, I don't think this will happen but more beurocratic tape.. my former roommate worked on various things in the lab, being a geneticist.. and they won't play together nicely.

Still, I do hope that the egos manage to check themselves for the good.

depends on what you mean by signifcant....buffet is about to give away about 30 billion

Wow, very cool. Gota love Gates

Nice of him to donate all our money so well. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

To put it into perspective it is the equivalent of someone making 200k per year donating $1400.00.

most people making 200k dont donate squat... the most generous people I know make less than 60k annual

Yeah but he's giving it to The Gates Foundation because he believes in what Bill and Melinda are going to do with the money.

Buffet mentioned if he doesn't donate his money (before and when he dies) then the gov't will take such a big chunk in taxes and he believes The Gates Foundation will do more good with the money the the Gov't will.

Right...but who's he's leaving it in control of?:winkwink:

I think that even further makes his point :thumbsup

Good shit by the Gates

I think your math is off...

Bill gates doesn't make 50 billion per year like someone MAKES 200k per year. Gates' net worth fluctuates up and DOWN each year. But out of that 50 billion most of it is not liquid. I've always been interested in learning exactly how much actual cash Gates has because selling off his % in his various companies will be a SLOOOOOOOW process

as soon as i make 100 billion i plan on doing the same thing. LOL

metoo, i am very happy with gates